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Oakland Unified desires to provide employees, community and partners timely information on collective bargaining with our employee unions.

OEA Bargaining

OUSD's office of Labor Management & Employee Relations (LMER) leads our bargaining effort and is currently in active negotiations with our teachers' union, the Oakland Education Association (OEA). 
 
The most recent updates on bargaining can be found on the LMER Bargaining Update Blog.  You may also subscribe below to the LMER Bargaining Update Blog to receive regular email updates on the progress of bargaining efforts.
 

OEA Bargaining Update - May 17, 2013 - Not Quite There - Compensation

The parties have made significant progress in many areas within OEA's desired frame of a one-year agreement.  Unfortunately, the parties have not reached full agreement in the critical area of compensation.  You can read the full one-page summary here. 
 
OUSD is committed to competitive compensation for employees and has recently reached agreements in this area with other bargaining groups.  The District's proposal of 2.35% one-time compensation and an ongoing salary increase of up to 1.5% was based on our understanding of our finances and state funding to education. 
 
Since that time, our expected Cost of Living Adjustment (COLA) from the State has actually gone down from 1.65% to 1.55%.  Although, Governor Brown desires to more fully fund education, there has been no budget passed and he himself indicated, there is "[n]ot a lot of money here folks . . . So it's a call for prudence not exuberance." 
 
The following charts and information are intended to clarify recent questions about District funding, Financial priorities and Competitive Compensation.
 

Teacher Pay net Kaiser Family Medical(Comparison)

OEA Kaiser Participation Rate

Teacher Pay net HealthNet Family Medical (Comparison)

OEA HealthNet Participation Rate

Teacher Net Pay after Kaiser OEA Kaiser Participation Rates Teacher Net Pay after HealthNet OEA HealthNet Participation Rate
Source: www.ed-data.k12.ca.us, Alameda County Office of Education, OUSD Benefits DataSource: OUSD Benefits DataSource: www.ed-data.k12.ca.us, Alameda County Office of Education, OUSD Benefits DataSource: OUSD Benefits Data

Teacher Net Pay after Benefits (Comparison)

Unrestricted General Fund Reserves Percentage (Comparison)

Unrestricted General Fund Reserves Detail (Comparison)

Allocation of OUSD Unrestricted Reserves

Salary Comp Backup table Reserves Comparison Reserves Detail Reserves Allocation
Source: www.ed-data.k12.ca.us, Alameda County Office of Education, OUSD Benefits DataSource: www.ed-data.k12.ca.usSource: www.ed-data.k12.ca.usSource: OUSD 2nd Interim Financial Report
 
 
 

Additional Information 

The following links provide additional information on bargaining.   
  

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Initial Proposals

At its September 27, 2012 meeting, the Board of Education summarized its direction to staff regarding bargaining with OEA (see video excerpt below).
 
 
 
 
 
 
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